[frosted-flakes]

Why do you have the icon size set so large? When I used a Mac I always kept the icons small and disabled auto-hide because I disliked how long it took for the bar to pop up.

[Calamityjanitor]

It is way too slow by default, I set the delay and animation time to 0 so it pops up immediately.

  defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -int 0
  defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -int 0
  killall Dock